Mothers Day Ideas on a Budget- Mothers Day & Fathers Day

It?s that time of the year when we want to show our Mom?s how much we love them all year and especially today. I don?t like to buy into the expensive flowers, and I have children that I am around that need some inexpensive ideas of what they can do for their mom?s for mothers day ages ranging from

Mothers Day Ideas on a Budget

It?s that time of the year when we want to show our Mom?s how much we love them all year and especially today. I don?t like to buy into the expensive flowers, and I have children that I am around that need some inexpensive ideas of what they can do for their mom?s for mothers day ages ranging from 2 up to 15.

My hubby has been working on slide shows of scanned pictures. I don't know what program he is using, but Power Point would work well. He is chosing great songs that go with each slide show. He couldn't contain himself yesterday and showed me the one he made for me. It had us both bawling like babies! He will be putting these on DVDs and they will be presents for our mothers.

For the very young children, handprint letters are always a hit with
mom and grandma's. In between children can make photo frames and use
handprints to cut a hole in for the photo or make a nicer wood frame
if money allows. For the teens, a good weekend or day of housework
and maybe nreakfast in bed would be a wonderful mother's day gift.
Possibly one good heart to heart over lunch served by the teen would
be worth more than any gift ever thought of.
To me it is more about time spent than the gift itself. Something
like a lovingly cooked batch of cookies from my daughter would be
worth more than thousands of dollars worth of storebought flowers or
gifts.
For the craftier children, you can make windchimes out of many
different items. Anything that sounds pleasant when clanked together.
You can also make a mobile for indoors out of little found items.
Maybe a mobile with mini photos of the child through the years to
hang in the office over mom's desk or something?
Burned discs of photos and slideshows are great ideas. I am thinking
of putting together discs for each family member of my children's
photos over the last year for Christmas this year.
Just remember to have fun with it and help the kids choose gifts that
fit them and the mom

make her something handmade like painting a wood frame, decorate it for her and put her picture in it. I did my mom and dad for this year and they loved them. I gave them to them because I don't have room to store them.

Now I wish I had digital baby pics of my kids-I just
bought a digital camera this year! I love this
Mother's day idea- I will definitely try this for
Father's Day too, and maybe a teacher's gift for the
preschool class that I took alot of pictures in.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Michelle
MA

I did this for Christmas 2 years ago, but it might be something Mom
would like.

My parents passed away several years ago and I found my father's
senior photo. Mom didn't graduate high school, but I found a photo
she had taken at a studio when she was around 19 years old. Luckily
both were 5x7 and so I got permission to reproduce the pics from the
original photographers. I found frames at Hobby Lobby that were
matted to hold 2- 5x7 photos. So, I framed the photos, side by side,
and gave one to each of my brothers. They loved it!

So I did it for my husband's side of the family last Christmas.His
parents are still alive and they loved it... claimed they forgot
what they looked like when they were young! Hope this gives birth to
more Mother's Day gift ideas.
Marie